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- - Essam, Yassin M. 2011 - IIED. This paper aims to look at some of the issues related to benefit distribution at village and household level.
- - Hawkins, Slayde. 2011 - Forest Trends. This booklet has been created as an initial resource for public sector officials interested in fostering an environment in which PES transactions can occur.
- - Zwick, Steve et. al. (eds), 2011 - Forest Trends. This booklet contains 12 featured projects and initiatives which demonstrate the current innovations and challenges to carbon, water and biodiversity PES implementation in Africa.
- - Mwangi, John K. et. al., 2011 - PRESA. This policy brief discusses the policy gaps that need to be addressed in order to institutionalise payments for watershed services in Kenya.
- - Kimbowa, Richard et. al., 2011 - REDD Net. This paper outlines the status of REDD+ processes, opportunities and challenges in Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda, and points out current and potential synergies between REDD+ and the key economic sectors of agriculture and food security; energy for rural development; and water resources management.
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Latest World Agroforestry Centre publications
- - Leimona, Beria et. al., 2011 - World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF). Rewards for environmental services (RES) and are designed to balance effectiveness and efficiency with fairness and pro-poor characteristics. This paper assesses some key issues associated with design and implementation of RES.
- - Hairiah, Kurniatun et. al., 2011 - World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF). This manual of methods focuses on changes in terrestrial carbon stocks linked to land use.
- - Pye-Smith, Charles 2010 - World Agroforestry Centre. This booklet tells the story of a project which has brought new life to Shinyanga Region, an area once so degraded that it was known as the ‘Desert of Tanzania.’ By restoring the traditional system of land management and introducing new agroforestry practices, the HASHI project has helped to improve the welfare of tens of thousands of villagers.
- - Pye-Smith, Charles 2010 - World Agroforestry Centre. Besides helping to improve livestock diets and milk yields, fodder trees provide a range of other benefits. Their nitrogen-fixing properties increase soil fertility; they provide firewood for cooking and pollen for honey bees; and they can be used to control erosion on steep slopes.
- - van Noordwijk, Meine and Leimona, Beria 2010 - World Agroforestry Centre. This working paper examine three paradigms: ‘Commoditized ES’, ‘Compensation for Opportunities Skipped’ and ‘Co-Investment in Stewardship’, CES, COS and CIS, respectively. The primary difference between CES, COS and CIS is in the way ‘conditionality’ is achieved.
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Latest Tools
For assessing different aspects of PES
- - Hawkins, Slayde. 2011 - Forest Trends. This booklet has been created as an initial resource for public sector officials interested in fostering an environment in which PES transactions can occur.
- - Hairiah, Kurniatun et. al., 2011 - World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF). This manual of methods focuses on changes in terrestrial carbon stocks linked to land use.
- - Richards, Michael 2011 - Forest Trends. This chapter outlines an approach to ensuring and demonstrating positive social or community impacts of forest carbon projects.
- - Olander, Jacob and Ebeling, Johannes 2011 - Forest Trends. This series of documents helps project developers understand key technical, social, environmental, and financial issues and points the way to key tools and guidance.
- - Schwarte, Christoph & Mohammed, Essam Y., 2011 - IIED. This briefing discusses the opportunities and challenges involved in the creation of a new form of private property that can be bought and sold in domestic and international markets — the ‘carbon right’.
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Getting started with PES
How to get a payments for environmental services scheme up and running
- - Olander, Jacob and Ebeling, Johannes 2011 - Forest Trends. This series of documents helps project developers understand key technical, social, environmental, and financial issues and points the way to key tools and guidance.
- - Nature Harness Initiatives did a value chain analysis to establish the chain activities, functions and linkages within ecosystem products (honey and bamboo) and services (carbon and watershed) in Wambabya riverine forests system and Rushebeya-Kanyabaha wetland landscape. The two sites are within the Albertine Rift associate site of the ICRAF-led PRESA project.
- - van Noordwijk, M. et. al., 2011 - World Agroforestry Centre. This is a manual on the GenRiver and FlowPer hydrology modelling tools.
- - PRESA, 2011. This publication describes PRESA's work in seven sites across Africa since 2008.
- - Shelley, Barry G., 2011 - Ecological Economics Reviews. Researchers, policy makers, and practitioners have used various terms to describe instruments that reward the stewardship of ecosystem services that benefit “external” actors. This review of the modulating use of terms and the arguments about which best fit theory and experience points to the key policy and ethical issues at stake as PES programs face critical and timely questions about the direction they will head.
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